Including Tandem in your course syllabus ensures that students engage in activities designed to enhance teamwork skills and improve overall team performance. By regularly checking in on team dynamics and completing personalized lessons, students can develop effective collaboration strategies and address issues proactively.
Tandem Overview:
Tandem supports students and instructors with teamwork. For this course, you’ll complete surveys and lessons on Tandem to support you and your teammates.
Logging In: Go to tandem.ai.umich.edu and log in with your U-M uniqname.
Main Components of Tandem:
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Team Checks:
- Description: Six-question surveys providing a snapshot of team dynamics.
- Purpose: To give insights into how things are going within your team.
- Benefit: After completing a team check, you can view the average team score for each item on your Tandem overview.
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Lessons:
- Description: Personalized lessons designed to build teamwork skills.
- Duration: Each lesson takes about 10 minutes to complete.
- Benefit: Helps you and your team develop essential skills for effective collaboration.
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Surveys:
- Description: Surveys conducted at the beginning, middle, and end of the term.
- Components:
- Beginning of Term Survey: Provides instructors with information to help form teams and personalize lessons.
- Midterm Survey: Allows you to evaluate yourself and your peers on teamwork and course-specific tasks. Results are available on the Midterm reflection that follows the survey.
- End of Term Survey: Similar to the Midterm survey, offering a final assessment of teamwork.
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